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Small Screen

Are Meredith Vieira And Al Roker Going To Kill Each Other?

1:40AM Richard Lawson | On the American Today show this morning, Meredith genially asked weatherman Al Roker, who is black, if he knew about the weather in Africa. Because her kid’s going there! Al, though, took jokey offence, and the scene got pretty uncomfortable More »
Big Screen

Host Has Seen Sandra Bullock ‘Naked’ And Likes To Giggle About It

3:40AM Richard | Matt Lauer grinned at Sandra Bullock on the Today Show today and said “I have now seen you naked…”, like a fourteen-year-old boy in shortpants talking to the village burlesque dancer. But how risque can Bullock’s PG-13-rated The Proposal be? More »

Everything Tom Cruise Knows About Bush, He Learned From the ‘Today’ Teleprompter

2:32AM Kyle Buchanan | Tom Cruise reunited with Matt Lauer on the Today Show this morning, and fortunately for the audience, Cruise’s strategy appeared to be, “Bring the crazy up front and as early as possible.” More »

Coming Up On ‘Today’: Boobs! Er, Carla Bruni!

4:37AM Kyle Buchanan | Except for the simmering, hate-fucky annoyance that Matt Lauer dishes out to Ann Curry on a daily basis, Today had always existed in a G-rated realm of sexuality until this past fall, when the gloves — and the blouses — came off. First, Marcia Brady revealed touching tales of family-bred syphilis, then the bastard son of Jay Thomas doffed his shirt to reveal some silky lingerie. Today, though, Lauer had to contend with a producer who blew his throw to commercial with a rather distracting, extreme close-up of French First Lady Carla Bruni’s rack. It was while watching this show that Barack Obama turned to Michelle and said, “You’re only doing GMA from now on.” [Today] More »

Friars Roast-Crashing Tom Cruise Reunited with Glib Tormentor Matt Lauer

6:40AM Kyle Buchanan | If Brooke Shields and Tom Cruise could patch things up after Cruise called her a pseudoscience-worshiping devil-thetan incubator (we’re paraphrasing), then surely, we thought, Cruise and Matt Lauer could eventually let bygones be bygones. You may remember how the actor and anchorman tussled back in 2005 when Cruise accused Lauer of not personally, personally understanding either Ritalin, postnatal depression, or why the son survived in War of the Worlds. Now, we hear, the Friars Club Roast of Lauer that just concluded in New York featured a surprise, couch-jumping guest. Says KTU reporter Paul Westcott: More »